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Thursday 20 december 2018
Ta-ta 2018, keep your chicken coops and, yes, the Floss

By LEANNE ITALIE idea is they roam around
NEW YORK (AP) — Keep your Brooklyn patio, patch
your backyard chicken of grass or suburban wood,
coops, dear 2018, and your finding their way home at
vampire facials, too. And night. Or something. Some
the stiff-arm Floss dance? are confined to enclosed
Stomp it out in the new runs. And what happens
year. when hipsters can't cope?
Among other things we're According to news reports,
over as we slide into 2019: the feathered puffs with
Bell sleeves that need con- legs get dumped at ani-
stant policing, the cash- mal shelters, sanctuaries or
cow otherwise known as worse, gobbled by some
subscription box services predator. Just go to a store
and Alec Baldwin's "Sat- and do your tick checks,
urday Night Live" Donald sweet faux farmers. It's been
Trump, because isn't the years now. How many eggs
real one enough? is too many eggs?
Here's what we'd like to KETO DESSERTS
leave behind come Jan. 1. Ketogenics, and ketosis,
You're welcome. and the ketogenic diet
FLOSS NO MORE have been around forev-
The arm-flailing, hip-sway- In this Nov. 14, 2018 file photo, Mason Ramsey, left, floss dances as hosts Brad Paisley, center, and ah. But the masses got all
ing, rapid-fire dance craze Carrie Underwood look on at the 52nd annual CMA Awards at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, whipped up in 2018.
is the new Dab and we Tenn. Here's how it goes: A high-
owe it to 16-year-old social Associated Press fat, adequate-protein, low-
media dude Russell Horn- carb approach to eating
ing, aka The Backpack Kid. neither or another gender wait, that's what baby you want to work to stuff may be good for difficult-
Horning grew a sizable Ins- entirely. showers are for, and birth- those things into a jacket to-control epilepsy in chil-
tagram following through Secondly, have we not days. or coat? How big the bells dren, and for weight loss
his dance moves as far outgrown blue for boys BIG OL' SLEEVES have become. How utterly and general health in all.
back as 2014, and Rihanna and pink for girls? Thirdly, Runways are full of bell same-same we all look in The idea is for you to get
reposted a photo of him how about a surprise? How sleeves, and stores, too. But our flared sleeves. more calories from protein
well before Katy Perry in- about keeping all of this to what about the marinara And tiered bell sleeves? and fat and fewer from
vited him to do his thing yourselves? sauce? Nobody needs to And those flares that fall carbs, in part by cutting
with her on "Saturday Night Gender reveal events, such police their sleeves quite at the elbow or way high back on carbs that are
Live" in 2017, launching him as the one recently that this much, especially when off the wrist? Prairie-wear easy to digest.
to social media superstar- sparked a massive fire in Ar- they're eating or doing and swingy sleeves, take a And that, my friends, in-
dom. izona , have grown into an something equally bottom- breather. cludes sugar. And THAT
Other celebs, moms, dads, industry, with party supplies of-the-sleeve skimming. YOUR CHICKEN FRIENDS means so many desserts. Of
athletes and pretty much on sale and DIY tips all over Bell sleeves were once oh- Organic eggs, pest control, course, eat what you want.
all of YouTube are flossing the place. so-boho but have popped fertilizer! Those are some of Celebrate your health, but
their lives away. So are all Celebrate the birth of a up on all manner of tops the apparent joys of keep- do the rest of us need to
the little kids in your house- human being instead. Oh and dresses. How hard do ing backyard chickens. The go without when we, say,
holds, once they outgrow come over for dinner?
"Baby Shark," that is. "My sister's cheesecake was
"Fortnite" added a Floss Bat- basically a fatberg," notes
tle Royale victory emote. one unsatisfied enlistee.
The fisted, stiff-armed BOX UP YOUR BOXES
dance that involves rotat- In beauty and fitness, food
ing arms from the front to prep, apparel and toys,
back over and over again all your dreams can come
isn't as easy as it looks for true in a box for a fee.
some, so it has sprouted Subscription boxes have
instructional videos. It also been around for a while
won Horning a 2018 Shorty but in 2018 there were so
Award. many they needed to be
Aren't all you Flossers ex- curated and heavily re-
hausted? Have a seat. viewed by media and con-
Take a load off. Go cheek- sumers alike.
to-cheek with someone. So many copycats. Such a
Anything but another year big grab for the cash.
of your back-and-forthness. While it's truly nice and way
GENDER REVEAL PARTIES convenient sometimes to
Firstly, gender is not solely receive a curated box of
boy or girl. Gender can stuff in the mail, especially
be fluid. Gender is a spec- at dinnertime, do remem-
trum. A child may have a ber that you're the one
non-binary gender identity, who's paying, unless you
meaning they don't iden- This Dec. 17, 2018 image released by Leon Drouin-Keith shows chickens roaming around a coop got lucky and your box-
tify strictly as boy or girl. in Greenlawn, N.Y. Associated Press es are gifts that keep on
They may identify as both, giving.q